Triforce! - Triforce! #303: Triforce vs Numbers

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

Triforce! Episode 303! Sips is in the middle of some big home improvements, Flax starts yet another Triforce war against Maths, we discover the unreal world of Alibaba and Lewis tops it all off with s...ome fresh Lews News! Go to http://auraframes.com/triforce to get up to $30 off Aura’s best-selling frames. Support your favourite podcast on Patreon: https://bit.ly/2SMnzk6 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:18 All the house stuff is coming along real nice. Got loads of stuff done this week, so we're getting, getting closer to putting it behind us forever. And you're never going to, never going to commit to a house changing project again. Never again. Yeah. I don't mind like a little thing, you know, like, oh, a new cupboard or, you know, little, little bits and pieces, but never. Do you want to build them yourself? Do you want to use your hands and your talents? I mean, I can put together flat pack furniture and stuff. It's no problem. Nice.
Starting point is 00:01:49 But custom stuff is difficult. You need a skilled carpenter. I went to IKEA. You need Jesus. Actually this week. I don't know if you've been to IKEA recently, but everything looks like... No, there's not one over here. So I think the last time I went to one was maybe 20 years ago.
Starting point is 00:02:03 I feel like everything in there looks like it should be in a student house, right? And I guess maybe that's because my tastes have changed or something, but I, it just feels so... You want some big ornate mahogany furniture now. You're at that age. Yeah, I want chandeliers and coving. Yes. Do you think Jesus was a good carpenter?
Starting point is 00:02:22 It never comes up. They mentioned that he's a carpenter, but I don't think he does any carpentry. It's all word of mouth. Those guys. Yeah. You know, well, he had those 3000 people, do you think, during that? They don't tend to advertise very well. You bread and fish. And also, if anyone has any carpentry that needs doing around the house,
Starting point is 00:02:41 of course, available, just give me a note. Day rate is excellent. I charge three shekels and a little piece of bread and I will be there. Oh man. I don't think he ever talks about his carpentry. It's never like, it loads of other banal sort of banal shit comes up in the Bible, you know, when they're talking about where they went and what they did and where they had breakfast and where they stayed. Never comes up in the Bible, you know, when they're talking about where they went and what they did and where they had breakfast and where they stayed, never comes up, Jesus knocked up a really nice chair. Like that doesn't come up.
Starting point is 00:03:09 It's kind of weird because he probably could, you know, if they, if they reached like a river and, you know, they could deploy Jesus like an army engineer to erect a bridge, a very sturdy bridge, but he wouldn't need to because he could just walk on water. You know what I mean? His magic kind of cancels out his skills, you know, his, uh, his, his carpentry skills. Good point. And maybe when they said that, um, I've just read this online, there's a prophecy that the Jews would destroy the temple in the, and he would raise it up again.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Do you reckon that it's possible that he could have done it with carpentry? Do you know what I mean? He would have raised it. I just, if they knocked down that temple, lads, I could knock you up a new one in three days. Yeah. Well, the first one he made was made of straw. And then they put that one down. So he tried again with sticks. You're putting his thatching, roof thatching and carpentry skills to the test.
Starting point is 00:04:07 And then Tuckston Carbide Steel was the third one. That was the third one. Yeah. That's it. He slapped it and he said that shit's not going anywhere. Interesting. So it says from Google, it says that more likely the Greek translation, it's an old book, changed it a bit. And I think, I think carpenter could possibly mean artisan or craftsman or sculptor or something.
Starting point is 00:04:30 So it could well be something a bit vaguer than just... It's a penguin classic now. Guy knocking up shelves. They don't even use new art for the book or anything. It's just... It is. I guess that just, I think so much could be lost in translation from that time. You know, I think it's very hard to take it as gospel. Ugh.
Starting point is 00:04:50 UGH! He's done it. He's gone. He's gone and done it. Please. Um, but yeah, I guess... Hmm. Do you ever miss like that? Like you see people doing these stuff, like building log cabins, and we talk about this all the time, but do you ever like, do you ever feel less of a man for like not being able to do any, any of this stuff? I can barely hammer a nail in. I'm terrified to like hit an electrical cable.
Starting point is 00:05:15 Well, they don't even really do that anymore. They use nail guns now. They're a lot more common. Right. Well, they don't even hammer a nail. You saying that I'm even out of date on using a hammer. I use it. It's all a machine or if you get a trades person over, get a carpenter or a joiner or somebody over to your house to do something and have a look in their van. They have a do dad for everything. Like it's what the tools that you remember, you know, from like
Starting point is 00:05:42 Bob the builder or whatever. So like that anymore, you know, from like Bob the Builder or whatever, it's not like that anymore. They got an electrical doodad. You know what the biggest thing they have in their van is like one of those big lithium... Is it lithium batteries? That all the power tools use now? You know, you slot them into the bottom? They'll have a big multi-charger for those.
Starting point is 00:06:02 That's the biggest thing they have in their van. They all use various batteries. Yeah. Right. Huh. Yeah. And when they're out, they can't have anything... it's much easier to have it be cordless, right? Because everything is now...
Starting point is 00:06:14 Oh yeah, absolutely. You need to be able to get places. But yeah, I had a carpenter around doing a bunch of stuff around the house stuff that we're having done, and he had a table saw that was battery operated with one of those big batteries. And he just had this huge array that he could plug all of his batteries into and charge them up while he was doing other stuff and everything. Like inspect the gadget.
Starting point is 00:06:38 Oh, it was mad. Yeah. So what is the weirdest one? Or do you even like pay attention? Was it all, and is it, does it feel like cheating? Do you know what I mean? No. Or does it feel like a life hack? It's better. They just do it, they do it faster and... Does it make you think you could do it though?
Starting point is 00:06:52 Not really. But I'm not really, I'm interested in talking to people who do it. Like I'm interested in that sense. Like I like, like I ask questions and say, like, oh, is that difficult? Or whatever. But I've never attempted to do it myself. I know my limits. Like, I can just about put together... I put together a flat pack mud kitchen for the baby yesterday. ALICE Mud kitchen?
Starting point is 00:07:17 KEN It's a mud kitchen. Yeah. It's like a little... ALICE What are you saying? KEN It's like a little wooden kitchen that stays outside and you get little pots and pans, you put water and mud and dirt in and you pretend that you make meals or whatever. What? You're meant to... it's messy.
Starting point is 00:07:35 Outside messy play, you know? So it's just like an outdoor kitchen that's a toy. Yeah, basically. Yeah. But it came, like all these pieces of wood and some screws and I mean, I put that together it was fine, but that's about my limit some screws and, I mean, I put that together and it was fine. But that's about my limit. I'm not gonna do anything more than that.
Starting point is 00:07:49 You're supposed to put it together. Do you know what I mean? That's why. Yeah, I didn't put it together. We've had it for, like, probably a year. And it's been sitting in the backyard. And it was so bad, and it got so weather beaten, that most of the cardboard had disintegrated, but all the...
Starting point is 00:08:02 It's meant to be outside, so all the wooden side was fine. Yesterday I was clearing up because we finally got rid of some scaffolding and other crap that was polluting our land. And I saw this thing, I was like, I better put this together. And it only took me like five minutes, but you know. It's perfect time for an outdoor playset just the beginning of winter. The weather yesterday was fantastic too. God, it was so good. So yeah, it was great. Yeah, it's the last gasps of decent weather. I'm going away and hoping that it'll stay vaguely warm, but I'm not expecting it to
Starting point is 00:08:34 be, you know, every time I go on holiday, I get screwed. It's just fate. I'm fated. You'll stay indoors and play video games on all the days with nice weather. And then when I go on holiday, it's like, shit. I'm like, oh, I want to be indoors play video games on all the days with nice weather. Yes. And then when I go on holiday, it's like shit. I'm like, oh, I want to be indoors playing video games. I bought an airbrush, new airbrush with like a compressor. To do what?
Starting point is 00:08:51 And to do various artsy things, mostly Warhammer models and things. But I bought it all and then it didn't have a hose. And I was like, oh, you know, there's always one thing that you have to get, you know, and then once you've got the hose and you set it all up, I'm sure there'll be something else that's missing. I'll be like, oh, I don't have that. I don't have any airbrush thinner. Do you need that?
Starting point is 00:09:14 Yeah, we need like stuff that you need. Everything needs, I think you just need a little bit of education, like half an hour of a YouTube tutorial and you feel like you can get the gist of most things. Yeah. But that's, I feel like that's what Warhammer painting is. Like when I was a kid, I didn't know what the fuck I was doing and I did everything terribly and now there's lots of cheats.
Starting point is 00:09:33 Right. You know, so many ways to like cheat and make stuff look good. Right. With like very low effort. Yeah. And I wonder whether carpentry and stuff like that is the same, you know? Well, the problem with carpentry, I mean, I mean, cheating to make something look good is one thing, but I think with carpentry, you don't, you want it to look good, yeah, but you want
Starting point is 00:09:51 it to be sturdy as well. You want to be able to slap it at the end and say, that's not going anywhere. You know, I'm looking at like, well, I'm looking at moving house or getting a house somewhere. Really? It is fascinating. Well, a house? The people, yeah, I'm still, I'm still renting and it's like, it's a choice. You're going to buy a house somewhere. And it is fascinating. The people, yeah, I'm still, I'm still renting and it's like, um, I don't know, maybe SIPs. I haven't decided, but I'm more likely to
Starting point is 00:10:11 go. If you do, let me give you this piece of advice. Do not renovate your house. Buy a brand new one. Try to buy a brand brand new one. It'll need some work, but it won't need any like major work. You know what I mean? So you're saying don't move into a castle or like a, or like a period property. No. Have you not watched the escape to the country or whatever it's called? That thing? No, I don't watch that daytime. It's not, I don't think it is daytime. It's a, I think I'm thinking of the thing with
Starting point is 00:10:40 the right one. Hang on. It's a raunchy nighttime show. Escape the country has 25 seasons. What's that one where their couple have a chateau in front? Is that Escape to the Country? Something Chateau. Yeah, that's as far as I go. Thanks, though.
Starting point is 00:10:52 Yeah, Something Chateau. You put her on the spot big time there. Something Chateau. Yeah, that one. In that they have this amazing old chateau, but the whole point of the show is all the stuff they've got to fix. And it's, it's, if you're not handy, don't do it because the guy that is in the show, like the husband, they're a couple, she does all the interior stuff, all the decorating, all the design.
Starting point is 00:11:16 And he's the guy that does all these sort of grunt work. So for example, they have the, the chicken coop or whatever is fucked. So they've got to build a new one. Right. There's like this little outdoor building. Fix that up. The ceiling is coming down. This windows folk. Every single week it's something. And if you had to get people in every time, you'd end up spending twice what you spent
Starting point is 00:11:35 on the house. Yeah. Guaranteed. And all the delays and waiting and disruption, having strangers in your house all the time, it'd be ridiculous. So I think certainly when we bought this place about 20 years ago, there was a lot of stuff that we've had to do to it over the years. And some of it is more disruptive than others. But there's certainly some stuff that if I was handy, I could have just done. And I am
Starting point is 00:11:57 a little bit jealous, I suppose, of people who are builders or carpenters or whatever, those kind of people that can do a bit of everything. Because I could have fixed so many problems just myself. Just go buy some lumber and I've got all the tools and blah blah blah Yeah, that would have been great, but I could do bits We had a thing yesterday where because this bunch of scaffolding came off They'd they put some boards up on on like a lower roof on the side of our house and the roof has It's like a it's uh, it's not like, it's not like roof tiles or shingles. It's like, uh, it's like a, like a resin sort of,
Starting point is 00:12:31 you know, it's like, it looks like a, like the hull of a boat or something, you know, like it's, it's, uh, it's like this like material that they have to like blow torch and like, kind of like weld it sort of thing. And thing. And what happened was when they put this board down with the scaffolding, somebody drilled the board into the roof, but it pierced the membrane like seven or eight times. By the way, is Terry in the background doing something? Yeah, I'm going to put him outside actually. What's he doing? He's just trying to escape.
Starting point is 00:13:02 I'll be right back. You can hear him banging around. That's so funny. Oh, it's one or the other from you two, isn't it? It's either a plane or someone honking. I don't know where you live though, actually I do know where you live, but I don't know, it can't be that quiet there. Do you have like quadruple glazing or something?
Starting point is 00:13:20 Like I never hear a sound. Aren't you in the studio at the office? I used to record at the office, yeah. Yeah, so easy peasy. I'm sorry. I live in a house. When I'm at home, it's not that loud though either. Like, yeah, I don't know. It's quite quiet where you are. It's okay. If I had a, if I had a Terry in my room, I'd also be noisy. Anyway, listen. Um, so I had like seven or eight holes in this roof and they had to come by and basically weld little circles like over the holes, which is fine.
Starting point is 00:13:50 And it didn't take long, but it's a man. It's so stupid. It could have caused a big leak. You know, the number seven. Yeah. Interesting. I've been thinking about mathematics this week. Right. Oh, I think it's a load of bollocks. So you think the fact that seven individual holes were drilled into my roof means nothing? No, I think that's fine, because you can count it. But a lot of other maths just seems like absolute arse to me, in all honesty. I never got along with it.
Starting point is 00:14:17 What do you mean? Oh, give an example, and this is quite a famous one. 0.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 recurring almost like infinitely is one that is equal to one. If you round it up, yeah. Right. If you round it up, agreed. And one of those simple proofs they give is if you take one, what's one third of one decimally? 0.3 recurring. So if you add three of those together,
Starting point is 00:14:40 Yeah, you get one. Yeah. Well, no, you get 0.9999999. I999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 fractions, which are quite straightforward and obvious, a quarter or fifth, whatever, to putting them into decimals, it's a weakness in the system. It's a weakness in that I think the whole thing falls apart at even the slightest glance. And we should abandon it and come up with a new system. Okay, my turn. Something that's annoyed me recently, I share your frustration with fractions. But this is completely different. I was when we were in London,
Starting point is 00:15:27 Flax, I flew home, obviously I had to fly home. And this is something that happens time and time and time again on a plane. I don't know if you guys have ever experienced this, but I'll never understand people at the back of the plane who think that they are getting off first somehow. You know, they get up and they start moving and you're just like, excuse me, like there's so many other people in front of you who are getting ready to leave as well, who are nicely letting the people in front of them go. What? How have you decided that you're so unique and special that you just somehow have to
Starting point is 00:16:03 charge to the front of the plane to get off first. Do they have a connecting flight? I don't think so. Well, maybe they do, but I mean, it's tough shit anyway, though. What I've done in those situations is say to the stewardess, if I don't get off this plane pronto when we land, I'm going to miss my connecting flight because we're already late. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:24 And we've had that before where sometimes I've been on a plane and they've said, if you have a connecting flight, please let those people off first. And of course, nobody fucking does. No, they just they don't even notice. No, they don't even give a shit. So I was on a flight the other week. This was the one coming back from Copenhagen. Copenhagen is with two peas, of course. Yes. And this family had to get the connecting flight.
Starting point is 00:16:45 Like they were we were a little bit late. They were in a big hurry. Planelands and the mother and the dad and the kids, they've already got all their shit. They just snuck it down. Good for them. They get up and they start piling forward. Well, you say good for them, mate. But they were pushing through all these people. They were at the back of the plane.
Starting point is 00:17:00 They go clobbering through people. They're literally barging people out of the way. Yeah. But the mum is smashing people with her bag. OK, that's not good. Did they I mean, you can just tell one of the one of the cabin crew, listen, we have to get off. And I'm sure they could help you. No, they can't. They can't.
Starting point is 00:17:18 They say everybody wait. And then of course, the light goes off. Everybody fucking gets up. Yeah. Like instantly, people are in the aisle. Yeah. And you know, there's no, there's no room for decent. They're all, they're all acing themselves trying to get their heavy ass luggage out of the overhead compartment. You know, like people who bring a full suitcase. It's crazy. It's mad. I just don't know how people can be so stupid.
Starting point is 00:17:42 Like it's just, it is insane. To save like five minutes. Yeah, I think it could be any number of reasons. Let's go back to maths for a second. Wait a second. Did you know this week, well last week, a couple of weeks ago, I can't remember when this podcast comes out, there's a new biggest prime number, right? And this happens every so often, right? That this week it was like some Nvidia guy, ex-Nvidia guy,
Starting point is 00:18:10 amateur mathematician. Was it sitting at the back of the plane and that it tried to charge forward ahead of everyone else? It is a prime number, so. So, so. Was it inside a bottle of prime? Was it hidden inside a bottle of prime? Oh, hilarious. If only.
Starting point is 00:18:26 Sorry, I'm not to scratch this week. Tell me more about this prime number. There's a guy called Mersenne and the Mersenne primes are the ones that are weird. So they're kind of like a prime number of the form M the prime number equals two to the power of the same number. Okay. Two to the power of a number minus one. Right. So the current, this one that was found was a two to the power of 136,279,841 minus one. So, that is 41 million digits long. Why are you telling me this? Why are you explaining this?
Starting point is 00:19:15 Well, it's just interesting that a number that's so, so big can be a prime number, okay? But maths is like this, this is what period influx says, right? My counterpoint to that is it's not that interesting. Okay, now here's something interesting. Mathematicians have graphed how often prime numbers are found by year. Why? And it used to be doubling every 4.3 years, but now it's growing by 10 to the 6th every 0.85 years. Yeah, but the computers are better, right?
Starting point is 00:19:46 What a load of shit. What a meta thing that math, of course, mathematicians have made a mathematical graph tracking how often prime numbers are found over time. It's nonsense. They fucking love prime numbers. They fucking love prime numbers. They fucking love prime numbers. Maths people fucking love them. They're so boring. They absolutely love prime numbers. They fucking love prime numbers. They fucking love fucking love that so boring Absolutely love them. Yeah, it's so boring
Starting point is 00:20:10 You know what you watch one number file video on YouTube suddenly its maths up the ass from YouTube It's like smashing maths into your face 24-7 They're all the same some mathematician and some clueless camera person or interviewer trying desperately to understand some stupid mathematical proof that they're just wanking over. And then the guy's got this smirk on his face like, Hey, you won't believe what happens next. Hey, it's like, fuck off.
Starting point is 00:20:37 You invented this dog shit arcane system. You guys got to get off about this. It's so far. It's so boring. YouTube recommended stuff recently has been Japanese Disney ride POVs. They're amazing. My youngest daughter is obsessed with Frozen and Tangled and they have these rides at, I think it's Fantasy Springs in Tokyo, in, in Tokyo, Disney.
Starting point is 00:21:05 And, uh, man, she loves them. They look great, but, uh, I can't understand a thing that's going on in them. Like, I mean, I get like the music and stuff like that, but it is all very Japanese, you know, but it's cool. And more recently, uh, there's a Peter Pan ride that she likes to watch as well. She watches these every night before she goes to bed. She's just like, I don't mind those ones so much, but it's the ones like, let it go, but it's Donald Duck singing it, or let it go, but it's Goofy singing it.
Starting point is 00:21:34 Those are the ones that I have to say, sorry, I cannot say this one again. That's alright. It's, it's, it's, I understand, my YouTube is the same. And I totally agree. They have these... No, go back to maths. Oh, maths. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:21:51 Here's one of my biggest problems with maths is probabilities. All right? I'll give an example. When I, cause I don't know anything about maths. As you may have noticed, I'm terrible at maths. I always was, always struggled with it. I cannot help my kids with it when it comes to schoolwork. I watched the YouTube videos that there are links on the home.
Starting point is 00:22:09 The math that they do nowadays is mad though. It's really hard. They have all these. It's so different to the way that we were taught it. Like, you know, when you when you do like addition or sorry, some subtraction and you have to like take from the number to the left. No, I don't. I can never remember the system. I can never. Well, I remember the system that I was taught, but they're teaching it differently now. You put the numbers in a different place and there's like double lines
Starting point is 00:22:36 at the bottom and everything. And it's and I'm just like, it's like there's like this bus stop system. They've got division or something. It's like, oh, I don't fucking know. But I mean, it's like that when it comes to, I'll give you the, one of the things I don't get, there are two, actually one of them is the lottery. So if you play the lottery, the odds of winning are roughly 14 and a half. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:22:56 I won eight pounds today. Congratulations. Lottery. Yeah. Okay. Congratulations. Um, if you, that's with one ticket gives you 14 and a half million. Let's, let's say one ticket gives you 14 and a half million.
Starting point is 00:23:05 Let's, let's say 14 million for ease of conversation. If you buy two tickets, you now have a one in seven million chance of winning. That's bollocks. That is bollocks, isn't it? That's just, you're simplifying two in 14 to one in seven to make it easier. But, and hear me out, you've got two combinations of winning of numbers and there are still almost 14 million other combinations that are not correct There's only one winning number. How can having two tickets make it go from 14 million to 7 million? It doesn't make sense
Starting point is 00:23:36 I haven't doubled my I haven't I haven't improved my chances at all barely at all. I've only got two tickets There's still only 14 million chances at all. They're at all. I've only got two tickets. There's still nearly 14 million combinations out there that I will not win. Let's reflect on that. Don't tell me it's one in seven.
Starting point is 00:23:52 It's bullshit. Here's another one. The Monty Hall problem. You know, this was very famous. You've given three doors. Right. Yeah. Behind one of them is a prize. Behind the other two is a goat. You choose a door. At this point, they remove one of the
Starting point is 00:24:03 other doors, a losing door. And they say, all right, at this point, they remove one of the other doors, a losing door. And they say, all right, at this point, there's your choice. And this door stings and it's bleeding. I'll take this one, please. Is these two doors. Now, at this point, they offer you the chance to switch. You should switch. And they've proven this mathematically, because when you made your initial choice, you had a one in three chance. But if you switch now, it's a 50-50. That can fuck off. It's ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:24:28 It's so stupid. And they can prove this shit mathematically and you have to explain it at length and it's like, huh, it's a real head scratcher. That's because it's impractical and bollocks and it doesn't make sense. So I think we're missing all this stuff. Get back to practicals. If I cut a cake in half, I have two halves of a cake. Simple. Simple. I can half, I have two halves of a cake. Simple, simple.
Starting point is 00:24:45 I can see I can visualize it all. Once you get to write it down, it's all abstract. They do all this wank and it just pisses me off. Well, anyway, math, math idiots like me. I bought a Channel Islands Christmas lottery ticket yesterday. It costs two pounds. Grand Prize is like 300000 pounds, I think. That's terrible.
Starting point is 00:25:04 And and but you can you can scratch. pounds. Grand prize is like 300,000 pounds, I think. That's terrible odds. But you can you can scratch. You got to hang on to the ticket for the grand prize draw, which is like a code on each ticket. But each ticket has like a scratch portion where you can win like little prizes. And I scratched and I scratched and I scratched, scratched the bonus. Sure enough. Boom. Eight pounds. I won. How did you make ice? I got I won eight pound on a scratch card into into a lengthy anecdote. I don't know. I don't know. So exciting.
Starting point is 00:25:32 I never win. You're even breaking down the scratch. I never win at those things. So it was quite exciting. This is like I took six. I took six pound in cash and I bought one more ticket. That's how they get you. That's how they get you. Are you a guy that does the scratches?
Starting point is 00:25:51 I've never done them. I've never done them. Why'd you do that? You know what? I don't know. Recently I did, I watched industry and there was a scene in industry where this guy Rob does a scratch ticket
Starting point is 00:26:02 and me and my wife just found it quite funny. And, uh, I thought you were saying you wanted to become a businessman. So, and, and every time I go to the store in the morning, I always have to go get milk because we always run out of milk. So I go get milk in the morning and the lady at the, at the shops, always like, do you want one of these? And I'm, and I'm always like, Jesus, what a pusher. Yeah, go on. I always take one. And then, uh, but it finally paid off. Yeah, go on. I always take one. And then, uh, but it finally paid off. Wait, one scratch card?
Starting point is 00:26:26 Yeah, one. Yeah. So you just, you do them all the time? She's clenching as a scratcher. No, I bring them home and then somebody else does them normally, but this time I decided, you know what, I'm going to do it. Who else? Who?
Starting point is 00:26:37 Well, my wife. Your children? My kids sometimes. Yeah. My mother-in-law, I'll do them sometimes. I'll be honest with you, I never thought- We just have a big pile of them on the counter and then whoever wants to... I never thought he would be a scratcher.
Starting point is 00:26:46 That's crazy. What do you scratch them with? Well I love that you guys are calling me a scratcher. I mean, this is literally the first time I've scratched today. No, you just told us! You bring them home every time you want to! I agree with you, but I don't scratch them! You're a scratch enabler!
Starting point is 00:27:02 Okay, that's fine, I'll take that. But anyway, I found this little piece of plastic that I used. I think it was like a piece of one of my kids' toys. It was just on the ground. I was like, oh, I'll just use this. And I scratched and there you go. Eight pounds. With a piece of a children's toy?
Starting point is 00:27:18 My father-in-law won like five grand one time. What was he scratching with? I don't know. This is fucking my time. This happened before I don't know. Fuck it. This is all my time. This happened before I even knew him. I don't know. You can buy scratch card scratches.
Starting point is 00:27:33 A special key. Yes, a tool that goes on a key chain for scratching scratch cards. Can you buy a fucking machine that scratches it for you? Like fucking that guy in the back of a van. Scratch. What you want? Industrial scale scratching. Hi, yes, Chris Channel Island Christmas lottery.
Starting point is 00:27:49 I'll take 200,000 tickets, please. Automated lottery ticket stretcher from Sigma Design. No, I'm not into the scratch cards, but this is a yearly thing just around Christmas. And I think a lot of it goes to to charity and stuff, too. So there's always a big sort of thing for it. People do like big syndicates. Like when I used to work in offices, there's always big Christmas lottery syndicates and whatnot. I don't I never worked anywhere where they won.
Starting point is 00:28:21 But usually a syndicate wins every year. So there is a video on YouTube with 200, sorry, 624 views. It's called Automated Lottery Ticket Scratcher, Sigma Design and Payrange. I thought this was a joke vid. This is a serious company, and they've actually made and coded an automated scratch card scratcher that also announces whether you've won. Does it, is it able to detect the void if removed scratch portion? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:28:50 And avoid it? I don't know, but that's Sigma Design. That would be an important thing for a machine such as that, I think. And then there's one comment on this video. I'm an all processes welder fabricator mechanic. Seen you were hiring in Southern Oregon for a welder fabricator. Curious of what you guys do.
Starting point is 00:29:07 Been employed seven years of my current job. No benefits. Thinking about checking your position out. Any reply? That's the only comment. No, no comment. What? Sigma design is a product design and engineering firm which provides product development services
Starting point is 00:29:21 from concept through production. So they make other weird shit today. They make things. They made them have a video with 14. I've got an idea that's going to blow you guys away. Hourglass pickle jar. Let's make it happen. This is the drone delivery system model. It's called wing beat. I mean, sure. This company does fine. It's just so boring. So they're just, they're, they're, they're, oh my God. I see the magic words. Monte Carlo simulation, a mathematical technique that uses random sampling to solve complex problems.
Starting point is 00:29:51 So they're doing this system to have drone deliveries for automated drone delivery. So they're working on a system for that. Good God. Yeah. This is, so there is a machine for everything like that. You know, you, you turn up, you know, everything. You don't need regular tools anymore. You know, a spanner, throw that away.
Starting point is 00:30:09 There's a fucking some sort of auto spanner that you can get. They'll do any spanning you need. They've got a coffee robot. Before you know it, the robots are going to take all of our jobs. Did you know that there's a robot that you can piss on and it can measure how hard you piss? That's my job. Piss on me daddy. I thought that's what it would say.
Starting point is 00:30:28 Yes, very hard piss. Yeah. Good flow. Up until now, someone's, you've had to piss on a nurse's face or something, I guess. What the fuck are you talking about? You think that's happening? Test it? Well, nurse, it's your first day on the job.
Starting point is 00:30:46 You got piss face duty. Sorry. We need to find out how strong this man's piss stream is. I can't think of another possible way we could discover this. I get it. Like, it's all fucking cheap shit as well from Alibaba, however. You can get all this, you can get anything. What? You can get all this, you can get anything. A fucking... Yesterday I was looking at doing some like decals or whatever, like little water sheet transfers that you have on your stuff. And you can get like a little tray that's specially designed for it with a little plastic sieve and a little comb. And it's like, hmmm. And it's all like, why do we need this stuff? Like, it's so unnecessary. Just use a jam jar lid, you know, like we used to when we were boys.
Starting point is 00:31:28 What's wrong with that? Hmm? You know? I want all these like cheeky life hacks instead of like a fucking thirty quid tool from Ali Baba that you gotta use once and it'll fall apart. I've still never bought anything from old Ali. From Mr. Baba. Well you probably have.
Starting point is 00:31:44 You probably have because it gets reselled on Amazon. Oh I see. So, you know, any of these things that you bought from it'll be a, a fingers. God that's reminding me actually. Excuse me? I need to order something off, off Amazon. It'll have some weird brands. I'm gonna get some scratch tickets.
Starting point is 00:32:01 Pontasli or whatever. Or just be called some stupid English name. I've got it. That would be the brand of it. I have. I did, I did buy, my daughter buys crap from random people on the internet. Really? She, she bought a wig, like for Halloween, she bought a wig and when it turned up, it
Starting point is 00:32:20 was shit. And she was in tears. And I was like, what's happened? She goes, I spent eight pounds on this wig. Oh no, it wasn't even eight pounds. It was like four pounds, including delivery. She was like, I bought a scam wig. I said, what do you mean you bought a scam wig? I said, the wig is turned up. It's just shit. You just bought a shit wig. It's not a scam. It's just shit. You pay four pounds plus postage for a wig. It's going to be shit. You got exactly what you paid for. Exactly. So she bought another wig and it was not a scam. It was slightly better.
Starting point is 00:32:47 We talked about this as well because on the front page of AliExpress, Wigs is up there on the top and hair extensions of Wigs is also there. As if that's like the main thing that people are buying on AliExpress. So I assume that's where she got it from. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. I mean, here I'm looking there. Women, women girl hand make gothic Lolita. Good God. Oh my God. That is something they're selling here.
Starting point is 00:33:12 Hot selling 2024 fashion women's mini watch 79p. I know. What the fuck? And that's why they buy like a hundred of them and sell them on Amazon for £10 or whatever. Or sell them up. This can't be right. AliExpress Dowinx gaming chair, breathable PU leather gaming chair with pocket spring cushions £5.16?
Starting point is 00:33:31 I know. It must be like an inch tall. It can't be a real chair. This is what I'm saying. The world is mad. This stuff is mad. You can buy a new three and a quarter inch cordless wrench set, two of them, with a million things in a box, eight pound.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Jesus. I mean, this is the shit that ends up in the Isle of Wonder at Lidl. Surely. Even this one, even this one I'm looking at, they're exactly the same on AliExpress. One of them is called the EMD tool, and one of them is called the Phaetori. Do you mean they've got two different brands already? Like, for the same on AliExpress. One of them is called the EMD tool and one of them is called the Faitory. Do you mean they've got two different brands already? Like for the same thing before you even bought it on the reseller. This. All right. So these have to just be straight up cons, right?
Starting point is 00:34:15 Because this is 2024 E99 Pro RC drone 4K professional, they spell professional wrong, 1080p wide angle HD camera, foldable helicopter drone with wifi, £6.66. I know. I just tempted to get it just to see what the fuck you get for £6.66. I know. It is, and sometimes it's actually okay. What the fuck is happening? It's astonishing, really.
Starting point is 00:34:40 Portable folding chair, 79p. I know! This is like we've gone back in time! Children's Glock empty chamber handgun! 79p! It's airsoft! Children's Glock! Oh man.
Starting point is 00:34:55 It is insanity on here, looking around, honestly. And the funny thing is, this is kind of how it's always worked. Shops buy shit from China for fuck all, and then ship them over in a massive crate for literally pennies, and then it fucking, they just resell it for 29.99, with a 300% markup or more, right? It's, that's how business has always worked for all of this shit. There's a set of underwear called, it's not Calvin Klein, it's Kaney Keen, but it's the same font. That is hilarious. It's just knockoff garbage, tons and tons of it. Kaney Keener, no Keener, Kaney Keener instead of Calvin Klein.
Starting point is 00:35:41 This is amazing. Yeah, looking at all this, the misspelled Puma, the misspelled Added Ass, the misspelled North Face. You can get Grinch pajamas where the Grinch's face is on your ass. I just got a brand new Tammy Hilfinger sweater. It only cost me five pounds. Yeah, exactly. This is, I have never seen this before. This is absolutely insane. I figured these were just all cons. God, no wonder we get so many parcels.
Starting point is 00:36:10 It's my daughter. I know she bought a thing of lollipops. The turn your mouth blue. They were like £2. And she thought she was just getting a few. And a bucket of like 150 lollipops turned up. Oh yeah, that's crazy. Probably teeming with radiation or something. There was a thing in the news. I know this is not loose news, but, um, somebody
Starting point is 00:36:29 ordered some clothes from Shein, you know, that the, uh, the big, uh, clothing, Oh, shine or whatever. Yeah. And, uh, they opened it up and there was like a huge scorpion in the packaging. Not with free scorpions. I didn't order the scorpion. I'd be shitting myself. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:36:49 The scorpion you sent came in black. I ordered a red scorpion. Thank you. Yeah, it's just a massive scorpion. 1000, 1000, 1 million lumens flashlight, 79p. A handheld game system 12 pounds. I wonder what games it takes. Uno.
Starting point is 00:37:10 Show of no mercy 79p. Shoe repair glue 79p. Three mode opening trash can 79p. Where's the profit margin? That's a bargain. How are they making it for enough that they can then ship and sell this to me? We talked about this the other week. I now have it presented to me. Stolen goods.
Starting point is 00:37:29 It's all stolen. We've stolen 3000 body warmers. How can we move these? I mean, is this just money laundering? What the fuck is happening? It boggles the mind because I paid fuck all for some knockoff Lego. It looked basically the same. The real money, the real value is in the Somali pirates you hired to hijack the cargo ship and then you get all those suits. I don't want to advertise AliExpress at all, but it is fascinating. It's fascinating. Terrifying.
Starting point is 00:38:01 This amount of absolute shit is being shipped across the globe. We are doomed. En masse. We are so doomed. But I think just be aware that this is what's happening. If you look at some piece of crap on Amazon, you couldn't get it for a tenth the price on here. Well, dare I say it, Lulu.
Starting point is 00:38:20 But perhaps the good people at AliExpress who were putting this shit on the internet should up their fucking prices and sell direct If you guys ever shopped at Belliani Dot co dot UK. Have you ever seen those ads? No, I think it's like a it's a. Stainless steel fishbone tweezer 45p. How? What? So this is an object for teasing out fishbones. A useful thing to have in a kitchen. Yeah, I'll need those. Someone's had to, they've had to get the metal, they've had to refine it,
Starting point is 00:39:00 they've had to get this thing into the mold, make it, check it, stencil it with their brand name on the side, ship it all over the place. Then these guys are selling it. That is going to get on a container ship and come over here. Yeah. 45 P. How much are they making on this? I just put it in order for five million solar power flashlights. We're going to make a fortune, honey. I bought a gas welding gas burner, welding torch, portable blowtorch.
Starting point is 00:39:26 79 pence. Quit your job, honey. I just bought three million knitted men's plush hats. We'll make a fortune. I bought an automatic rolling double layer egg holder, sweetheart. Cancel the holiday. We're upgrading. We're going holiday, we're upgrading. We're going to the Seychelles. We're millionaires now.
Starting point is 00:39:49 It's wild. It's fucking wild. It's wild. 17MP foldable laptops there. We're living in a dystopia. Does this stuff turn up? Does it turn up? So yeah, I went and bought something as a test and it was shit, but it did arrive about two months after it said it would. Luckily I don't want anything. Honestly, I don't actually want anything.
Starting point is 00:40:16 Yeah. I kind of want to get rid of stuff. I've got so much stuff that... We just had that the other day. Good lord. much stuff that we just had that the other day. I had a lot. Yeah, we had we had a loft space that we just chucked stuff in for years. I forgot about it. And we bought some new suitcases this summer to go on holiday because our older ones were kind of fucked up and it was so heavy. Even when empty.
Starting point is 00:40:37 They were so heavy. Do you get the hard shell Samsonite? Then they're not Samsonites. I don't think maybe they are. I don't know either way. I think that I think that is it bench. They I think they're, I think they're, is it Bench? They have a lifetime guarantee, you know. Yeah, whatever.
Starting point is 00:40:48 I mean, our old Samsonites were so heavy that they added like five kilos to the fucking scales when you put them in. Anyway, we had, it turns out, four suitcases in the loft space that we'd forgotten about. So they had to go. And then there was another small suitcase we had that was broken. Huge cardboard boxes that my daughter's new bed came in. Her old bed, her old mattresses, an old PC, my old barbecue. All this stuff that was just had to fucking go.
Starting point is 00:41:14 You had an old barbecue in your loft? No, dude, this was in the garden. Oh, I was going to say. Yeah, sorry. That's fair. And then I know. So that was in the loft space. The garden had a few things that wanted to go as well. I just had a big hump and dump yesterday for garden stuff. And we got rid of it.
Starting point is 00:41:28 So you went to the dump. I didn't go to the dump. No, I called a guy to come in because we had a whole bunch of like rubble. Sorry, I want to hear the term again. Plaster board hump and dump. Hump and dump. Hump and dump. That's a one night stand, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:41:43 Am I going crazy? That's also it's also very popular name for general household removal companies. Never heard that before. Well, anyway, we are this man and van is what I do. Yeah, we have that as well. Man and man with a van, hump and dump, lift and shift is another one. Oh, OK. Well, I had this Polish load and hit the road. Well, my load. Right. But no, they they they come they come over. Oh, OK. Well, I had this Polish... Blow my load and hit the road. Blow my load.
Starting point is 00:42:12 But no, they come over and as long as you've got everything sort of in an area, which I did all over the driveway, I said here, take all this stuff. And then they just sort through it all, separate it out, because when they go to the dump, there's certain... You have to separate it all out. Metals, rubble. It. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:42:56 like good or whatever, they just keep it. Yeah. You see them sorting through it. They take, yeah. Well we, we had a big basement cause we had loads of. And the guy was like, oh, I'm taking this home for my kids. I'll have this. Like a lot of it was like, kind of costumes that would be down there and all, well they were okay. But do you know what I mean? It's like, we keep, we buy so much crap, you know, costumes and things, and we don't want to throw them away.
Starting point is 00:43:18 So they get put in boxes in the basement. Did you sell all of my iconic costumes from, what's it called? We did, I tell you what, we did charity auction that costume that you wore in France, Sips. Remember when you dressed up as that regal Lord. We did put that on the charity auction. I liked doing that, but I think the, anyone in the office loses their, any of the staff lose their mind if I asked them to do, to send something out in the mail, right? Or do an auction. It's such a lot of faff. The Christmas like our auction that we did was like, you know, we told like 20 or 30 things, but it's such a
Starting point is 00:43:53 lot of faff, like wrapping them up, getting the postage, taking them to the post office. Like they hate it and they refuse to do it. And so it's like anything like that. It's for me, it's like, do we just throw it away at this point? Because I think that's where it's come to. It's like, I'm looking at this thing and I'm like, oh, someone will probably want to buy this for charity. And I'll look at the, I'm not going to name who it is. I'll look at them and they'll be like, no, can we just throw it away? And I'll be like, okay, fine. What's right. So yeah, it's an easier option. We're contributing to the problem by how, I guess how busy we are and how much of a
Starting point is 00:44:26 time sink it is. You know, it's not like we're making any money off it selling it for charity kind of thing. But part of me is like, people want to own these random old bits of Yogg-Ska's history. I kind of want to do like a car boot sale where we just get a table out the front and we're just like, take away all this crap. There's a bowl shaped like a shark that Ben made. There's this old thing that this guy made. And do you know what I mean? Like just take it all away. All this
Starting point is 00:44:47 stuff that we got, cause we got so much crap. Oh my God. It just builds up. It's out of control. You wouldn't believe how much crap we accumulate. I would believe it. I've seen it. I've seen all the crap. Well, it's been years now since I've been, but I'd imagine. We have got an office giveaway shelf. I've probably talked about this before. Oh yeah. It says never anything on it worth having.
Starting point is 00:45:09 Well, by the time I get there. There was, I used it quite often to get rid of a lot of stuff initially. And then I found that- You put some money on there. You put your jar, three years worth of toenail clippings. Oh my God. Just order stuff from T-Mill and just stack it on there. What the fuck? Just like, spring spanner sets. Oh my god. No stuff from this is my collection on there.
Starting point is 00:45:25 What the fuck just like cherry banner sets. Yeah, you know, just to change the topic. I submitted it but they they won't publish the book I wrote on penguins penguins. They said I should have written it on paper. Oh fucking hilarious dad joke. Where did you get that one from? The internet. Oh, god.
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Starting point is 00:47:27 pics of her and her mum from when she was younger. Wow. Okay. Why don't you try that out? I will. Thank you. On with the show. Do you want to hear my loose news? Yes. Yes, please. Thanks. Yes. Yes. This guy loose news? Yes, please. Thanks. Yes.
Starting point is 00:47:46 Yes. And finally, yes. This guy being a cute Peter Todd, who's been named as Bitcoin's creator. What, old Pete Todd? Old Peter Todd. Apparently an HBO documentary accused this guy of creating Bitcoin, which I don't think is the case because he's only 39. Accused him of creating Bitcoin.
Starting point is 00:48:03 Well, we don't know who this guy called Satoshi Nakamoto is, right? And there's a reason for that because potentially he's worth $67 billion, which means he's a giant target, right? If people find out that it's him, he could get kidnapped or anything. That's my alter ego. That's the name I use like for business. And one day they're going to be waiting in a conference room to meet the, the famous legendary Sakashi Nakamoto. And then it'll be me.
Starting point is 00:48:35 I'm going to walk in. Hey guys. Oh, that's not what I was expecting at all. Everybody's kind of expecting, you know, not me. And then I draw in my shorts and I'm like, hey, my low sell high, let's go. And he turned up, he was like, I don't understand any of this Bitcoin stuff. I don't like prime numbers. Fuck off.
Starting point is 00:48:58 You talking about me? Yes. That's like my art vandalism. Thing is you actually have some experience with coding and stuff, Sibs, and being involved in finance. So do I. I fucking programmed. Did you program in finance?
Starting point is 00:49:11 I was a coder for five years. I did four years at university, two years of A-level. I've got a decade of coding experience. Well, give me some of that Bitcoin money, you fuck. There's a load of boxes to fucking con, isn't it? Yeah. So, so anyway, the people, this guy's going to hide, it doesn to yourself. That's a fucking con, isn't it? Yeah. So, so anyway, um, the people, this guy's going to hide.
Starting point is 00:49:28 It doesn't matter. Did you see that Google ought funded 10 small nuclear reactors to power their data centers? Yeah, I did not know that. No, I did not know. That's amazing. It's fucking, it's insane. Yeah. Obviously they've, they, Google has tried to commit to clean energy and they've agreed
Starting point is 00:49:44 to purchase electricity from these things called SMRs, which are small modular reactors. I love it when an abbreviation for something scientific has the word small in it. I just like that. I think it's funny. What happens if one of these things melts down? Well, not much. Luckily.
Starting point is 00:50:01 It's very small. Yeah, it's tiny. Your back garden is fucked. That's it. You do not's very small. Yeah. It's tiny. Your back garden is fucked. That's it. You do not want to go back there. Go back there in about 10,000 years, honey. But for now, let's just leave it to settle. Just stay out of the garden for the next 10,000 years. So yes, I don't know. But Amazon did the similar thing. They were actually, they actually did it first. So there is this idea that AI is going
Starting point is 00:50:27 to be very energy hungry. It's clean, but there is waste produced from all nuclear, which is... Well, no, don't worry. It's like a Chinese disposable AliExpress nuclear reactor. You just buy it from China and you just use it till it runs out like a vape. So where is it? And then you just use it till it runs out like a vape. So where is it? And then you just, I just carry it. Is it Norway or Sweden? Could even be Denmark.
Starting point is 00:50:49 I'm not sure, but they, I was, I was looking at this thing where they've basically drilled deep, deep, deep into the earth and made this like ultra high, long-term secure, um, nuclear waste disposal site. Sure. And it is like, oh my God, it is so, so deep in the ground. But you just think, man, there's gotta be some way that you could just reprocess that waste into plutonium pellets and then maybe plutonium rods and then just dump them into the fix-it sink, you know? Like, I think that would be the...
Starting point is 00:51:27 Like, it's satisfactory. Yeah, that would be the optimal. So, there's a tunnel in Finland called the Onkalo site. It's the furthest along the road to becoming operational among repositories worldwide. It started construction in 2004 and they're still digging. Yeah, it's gonna go deep. It zigzags down, down, down, down into this massive storage area that's all whatever, lined by lead or cement or I don't know. These places have to be built in very geologically stable places.
Starting point is 00:51:54 Yes, they can't be built anywhere where there's movement. Because the last thing you want is for it to be ruptured and go into the fucking groundwater because that's even worse than just leaving it on the surface. Yeah, I guess, god, nuclear reactors, fascinating stuff, interesting, I guess. A children's soft play centre have apologised after using body bag style Halloween decorations. One mother, who took her daughter to Rugrats and Half Pints in Sirencester, Bloster, said she did a double take when she spotted pictures resembling human bodies covered in black plastic, some wrapped with tape marked Caution or Danger, hanging upside down from the soft play structure.
Starting point is 00:52:37 Jesus Christ. I'll just put you a little picture. Yeah, I'm looking at pictures that's horrifying. What happened to just like spooky ghosts and skeletons? Why do we always have to do this with everything? Like we don't need an ultra realistic, uh, you know, uh, make believe like autopsy center for aliens or whatever around Halloween and, and, and blood oozing out of eyes and stuff like that. Uh, you take, if you take a kid to like the dollar store, there's all these severed hands with bones and blood
Starting point is 00:53:05 on them and stuff, and you just think, Jesus Christ. It's too much. Yeah, you can just keep it really, you know, pumpkin and ghost and comic skeletons is fine. I think sometimes this is a thing where people, sometimes when they home make these things, they end up looking way better than they thought, and way creepier than they thought, right? They think, oh, this will just be some shit. And a lot of it is. But yeah, I can imagine sometimes it actually ends up... You see these Halloween costumes every year, all these Halloween makeup, that actually is genuinely frightening. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:36 I just think that, I don't think that's really, you'll get, I don't think you're really getting it. The airport in the south of New Zealand, at Dunedin, Dunedin, Dunedin, Dunedin? I don't know how to pronounce that place. Sorry. Dunedin! Dunedin! My father's name was Dunedin! The great dwarf from the harsh home of slagmaids!
Starting point is 00:54:00 Sorry. They haven't, the airport there have announced that they are limiting hugging in its drop off zone to a maximum of three minutes with anyone else who wants a longer goodbye told to head for the car park. They put a sign up that says max hug time three minutes. A three minute hug? Yep. I'm getting a boner. Like that's a long hug. That is sex. That is a long one. I mean, put
Starting point is 00:54:26 it this way. If you caught your wife hugging another fella for three minutes, it's over. It's over. She's left you for this other guy. That is very generous. Actually, most people just do a quick embrace. Well, it might be that there's a family that need to hug each other. But yeah, you're right. I think it's just because there's congestion due to people saying goodbye at this location. And, you know, it's a cause and problem. But it's three minutes.
Starting point is 00:54:48 If we're gonna put a time limit on, three minutes is also a long time. Like, it's stupid to have this rule in the first place, but picking three minutes as the maximum time, if you've got all those people bored to play and they're all hugging for three minutes, what a mess. If you love and miss somebody that much, just live close to them. Like, why? What the fuck are you Like, it's just another fucking rule. I swear to Christ, there's too many fucking rules now. Rule. If I'm saying goodbye to somebody at the airport, I'm happy to be leaving.
Starting point is 00:55:18 You know what I mean? Like, well, come on. I mean, I mean, I guess if you got to go away, but I mean, if you go away for a couple of days, nobody's going to be crying that much sort of thing. If you really miss somebody like, why do you live so far away from them in the first place? Yeah, just move closer. Yeah, jeez, it's easy. The US Federal Aviation Administration, talking about airports, have ended a requirement that for planes to have wings, that there was a no smoking sign off switch, right? Because smoking has been banned on commercial flights for so long that the no smoking sign off switch, right? Because smoking has been banned on commercial
Starting point is 00:55:45 flights for so long that the no smoking sign being able to turn it on and off was burdensome. And so it's just, I guess it's now just commonplace that no smoking signs can be. Couldn't they ever do away with them? I think they still have them on planes. Yeah, they do. They don't have to be able to turn them on and off or something. I mean, I know that Tom and Ben and Lydia and Ravs went to Japan recently, and Japan have much stricter anti-smoking rules than here. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:16 To the board. More strict than here? There's outside areas, like on sidewalks and stuff, where it says you can't smoke here. Yeah, you can't smoke just outside on the sidewalk. I mean, that's true in Singapore, they've boxed in areas. You have to go to basically a dedicated, tiny box. Some parts in California are quite strict with it too. It's like a super sad box, where you go in there.
Starting point is 00:56:36 In Singapore it's on the corners generally, there'll be an area that's painted, you can smoke here, but you can't smoke walking along the road, you have to stand in the area and smoke. So I assume it's the same in Japan. It's really similar. I think it's really had a big impact on stopping people smoking because it really makes smokers fucking miserable. Yeah, it's horrible. It's really annoying. By putting them in these little stinky sad rooms.
Starting point is 00:56:57 I saw it at like, going through sort of some airports. There's always like an airport smoking area as well. And it's just absolutely fucking the worst. I like those. What what the little ventilator Smoking rooms being able to smoke after you've gone through is is enormous. Sometimes you gotta wait ages via flight There's a in in LAX. There's a big outdoor Smoking area Bristol's got an outdoor smoking area Bristol Airport. Yeah, he throw it Yeah, once you once you're through security your your bone I said to I remember one time in, when I was flying out of LAX, I went through and I said to the
Starting point is 00:57:29 guy, is there a smoking area? He went, yeah. You go back through security, yeah? All the way back through security. You go to the pavement, you go to the smoking area, you can smoke there. I was like, why don't you just say no? Wow. Well done. Finally, a German pizzeria has been raided over its best-selling pizza. If you ordered a number 40 on the menu, you got a side of cocaine with it. Wow! And apparently it was their most popular order. It's been busted and shut down, but apparently it was running for quite a while. It was one of the best selling pizzas.
Starting point is 00:58:08 Food inspectors are the ones who topped them off. When drug squad officers began observing the restaurant, they buzzed the restaurant manager's apartment and he threw a bag of drugs out of the window, which fell right into the arms of police officers. They discovered... So a real tight operation, this. Yes. That was the payoff. arms of police officers. They discovered. So a real tight operation. Yes.
Starting point is 00:58:25 That was the payoff. 1.6 kilos of protein and 268,000 euros in cash. Quite a lot of cash. Quite a bit of cash. It was, it's good stuff. Um, delicious pizza as well. I wonder what the pizza was that you got with it. I guess like a, um, you know, a plain one. I don't know. Just a margarita. Something basic. Yeah. Maybe it was like a, um, you know, a plain one. I don't know. Just a margarita. Basic. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:47 Or maybe it was like a real weird one as well. Like number 40. That's quite far down. Cause you don't want people to order it by accident. No, you want, you want to pick a pizza that no one would ordinarily ever fucking order. Like a ham and pineapple. Just joking. I'm just joking.
Starting point is 00:59:02 I'm joking. Um, all right. Well, there you go. That's, that's the podcast for today. Yeah. Thanks. That was great. Lose News. Thanks so much stuff. We'll be back with more stuff next week. Enjoy yourselves.
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